Abbot of Holme Cultram. King and council. Abbot of Holme Cultram The Abbot of Holme...

Petitioners

Abbot of Holme Cultram.

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Abbot of Holme Cultram

Nature of request

The Abbot of Holme Cultram states that he paid 100 marks to the King to have his town of Skinburness a free borough, and a fair and market and other connected liberties there, but that now the greater part of the town and of the road leading to it has been washed away by the sea, so that no-one can live or travel there, and he has entirely lost his profit from the town. He asks that the liberties and charter he had for Skinburness might be transferred to his town of Newton Arlosh, which he has built on the island of Holme Cultram.

Nature of endorsement

In Chancery.That the first charter is to be annulled, and then he is to have a similar charter in its place, as he requests.

Places mentioned

Holme Cultram (Abbeytown), [Cumberland]

Skinburness, [Cumberland]

Kyrkeby John (Newton Arlosh), [Cumberland].

For another petition relating to the borough at Skinburness see SC 8/200/9967

• Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. III, Edw I and Edw II, 1300-1326, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.55 (grant that Newton Arlosh shall be a free borough, with all the liberties previously enjoyed by Skinburness)
• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.50-51 (no.82) (full edition of petition and of Latin summary on parliament roll)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.161b (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 83 (full edition and translation of original petition)